New Delhi: Differences between Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal continued to simmer with the veteran activist saying he will not support all candidates who would be put up by the party to be formed by India Against Corruption.
Hazare also differed with Kejriwal's assertion that he will return to them if they work honestly and the claim that he was the first to moot the idea of forming a party.
Hazare, who concluded the first round of consultations on the course of his apolitical anti-grant movement, on Monday received Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, 12 days after they formally split on the issue of the movement taking a political plunge.
He, however, pledged to campaign for Kejriwal if he contested against Union Minister Kapil Sibal in Chandni Chowk holding him responsible for the failure in passage of the Lokpal Bill.
"I never said Arvind is bad. If he fights, I will support Arvind if he contests. So far, I have not come across any shortcomings in him. He is working for the society. But at the same time, I am not going to support all candidates put up by Arvind. How do I know whom Arvind will select.
"That MP from Chandni Chowk, Kapil Sibal. If he contests against him, I will certainly campaign for him... Sibal was against Lokpal Bill. He was against our participation in Joint Committee," Hazare told a press conference after his meetings.
Kejriwal said they came to meet him as Hazare is in Delhi. "We have a relationship. There is no fight between us. He himself has said the goal is same though the paths are different. We told him that whenever needed, we are there to help you. He told us media is creating an impression that there is a fight," he said.
The meeting came a day before Kejriwal is set to announce the formation of his political party. Hazare and Kejriwal said there were no rift between them and that they will help each other. "If he has said that, it is wrong," Hazare said when his attention was drawn to a interview by Kejriwal in which he claimed the veteran activist asked him about the proposition.
Asked who will use the name India Against Corruption, he said he has asked Kiran Bedi to sit with Kejriwal and others to take a final decision on the matter.
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